HANDUMANAN NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

English 7
Quarter 3 Summative Test and Performance Test
Name: _______________________________________ Grade level & Section: ___________ Date: _____________
Multiple Choice Directions: Choose the letter of the best answer. Write your answer before the number.

1. Tone can best described as____________.

A. attitude of the reader toward what they are reading about
B. the author's attitude toward the subject he/she is writing about
C. the overall mood or feeling in a story
D. reader's point of view
2. What is the "mood" of a story?
A. Emotions audience feels from a given passage.
B. The summary of events of the story.
C. The time and place of the story.
D. The lesson the reader learns from the story.
3. To remember what tone is, some good tricks are:
A. AA-author's attitude
B. imagining the author's facial expression as he writes
C. parent saying: "don't give me that tone"
D. all of these are true
4. The tone and mood of a text can be very different
A. TRUE B. FALSE
5. If an author has no emotion regarding the story he is telling, his tone can be described as
_______
A. PLAYFUL
B. IRONIC
C. OBJECTIVE
D. MYSTERIOUS
6. Read the following poem, "A Birthday" by Christina Rossetti and answer the question
below.
My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is a weathered shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit; My heart is like a rainbow shell That
paddles in a halcyon [peaceful] sea;
My heart is gladder than all these
Because my love is come to me.
QUESTION: What tone do the details of the poem convey?
A. SORROW B. EXCITEMENT C. HAPPINESS D. NERVOUSNESS
7. There go the loves that wither [dry up], The old loves with wearier wings;
And all dead years draw thither [there] And disastrous things;
Dead dreams of days forsaken, Blind buds that snows have shaken, Wild leaves that
winds have taken,
Red strays of ruined springs. ...
And love, grown faint and fretful With lips but half regretful Sighs, and with eyes
forgetful Weeps that no loves endure [last].
QUESTION: What tone do the details in the poem convey?
A. Wastefulness and excess
B. Sadness and despair
C. Happiness
D. Mistrust
8. Which tone is represented in the following passage?
Wow! With a top speed of one hundred fifty miles per hour, that car can almost fly!
A. CALM B. SCARY C. ANNOYED D. EXCITED
 9. What is the tone of the following passage?
The alarm buzzed. Jordan smashed her fist down on it--hard. It flew off the nightstand
and bounced off her cat, Armstrong. The cat yowled indignantly and rocketed out the
room.
A. EERIE B. PASSIONATE C. SARCASTIC D. HUMOROUS
10. What word would you use to describe the tone of this passage?
Lana was bursting with excitement. She paced up and down, and every few minutes headed
to the window to check for the mail carrier. When he finally showed up, she ran down the
path and stretched out her hand for the mail. She took a deep breath and, hands shaking,
ripped open the envelope.
A. HUMOROUS B. ANXIOUS C. PERSUASIVE D. CHEERFUL

B. Multiple Choice Directions: Choose the letter of the best answer.

11. ""Life is like a box of chocolates"" is an example of:

A. Simile B. Metaphor C. Onomatopoeia D. Alliteration

12. Giving non-human objects human characteristics is called:

A. Allegory B. Personification C. Literary device D. Colloquialism

13. Which of the following is an example of Alliteration?

A. She ate the cake in a hurry.

B. Her eyes are as bright as the stars.
C. Come and clean the chaos in your closet.
D. The smell reminded him of his childhood.
14. Which of these lines from a poem contains an example of Onomatopoeia?

A. "And find him; by the happy threshold, he"

B. "With Death and Morning on the silver horns."
C. "Or foxlike in the vine; nor cares to walk."
D. "The moan of doves in immemorial elms."
15. Which of the following is NOT an example of Euphemism?

A. Michael was sent to a correctional facility.

B. Sheila is a curvy woman. She's just got a little cold.
C. Her grandmother passed away this morning.
C. Identification Directions: Identify what literary device is used in each of the following sentences.
.Allusion Diction Imagery Personification Simile

_______________ 16. He was a real good guy ball-buster, the Deadpool of his time.

_______________ 17. I bid you adieu.

_______________ 18. She padded through the back door into her kitchen and filled her glass with tap water. Dishes

were piled in the sink, spilling onto the counter. The window above the pile was dirty and smudged…

_______________ 19. The wind embraced the flowers and the flowers danced in return.

_______________ 20. His heart was as heavy as lead, weighed down by the memory of what he had done.